CIIAPTI-R XXI. 



Prospects. 



As I have pointed out in the preceding chapter, it 

 is difllcult in the case of the Kootenay orchards, 

 where the trees are young and fruits of different kinds 

 are all grown on the same acre of land, to obtain data 

 which are perfectly conclusive. To help out the 

 defects arising from this circumstance, I have quoted 

 figures of actual yields from the fruit-growing dis- 

 tricts of Oregon and Washington, where the orchards 

 are, as a rule, some eight years older than they are in 

 the Kootenays. It would not be difficult to give 

 returns of yields from one or two trees for individual 

 years, as, for instance, $12 (50s.) from a KeilTer's 

 Hybrid pear tree; $50 (£10) from five Gravenstein 

 apple trees; $25 (£5) from three Smuts peach trees; 

 $40 (£8) from three Alexander apple trees; $81 (£16) 

 from one Black Tartarian cherry tree; $175 (£35) 

 from eight Royal Anne cherry trees; v$105 (£21) 

 from three Governor Wood cherry trees; $42 (£8 lOs.) 

 from six Golden Russet apple trees; $33 (£6 lOs.) 

 from six Northern Spy apple trees; and so on. This 

 is, however, almost all that can be done as yet for the 

 Kootenays. From those data we have to estimate 

 the yield per acre, knowing, as we do, the number of 



* Whilst passing this chapter through the press, the author has gathered close 

 upon a quarter of a ton of Klack Tartarian cherries off a single tree, the crop being 

 worth $& to 875 (£13 to £15). 



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